Remembering David Graham and other voices of children’s television

[Mayor the Policeman]

David Graham, voice of Gordon Tracy, Brains and Parker in Thunderbirds and the Daleks in 1960s Doctor Who has passed away aged 99.

He provided many character voices throughout the 70s, 80s and 90s, as well as having a prolific in-vision career (he was the Big Brother in the 1984 Apple Macintosh advert).

He was just one of the many British voiceover artists who contributed to children’s television in those decades. Which others to discuss and remember?

[Richard1978]

Very sad news, the other original Dalek voice was Peter Hawkins who could be heard in many other places, like Captain Pugwash & many Public Information Films.

[Mayor the Policeman]

Very sad news, the other original Dalek voice was Peter Hawkins who could be heard in many other places, like Captain Pugwash & many Public Information Films.

Hawkins was perhaps the original British “actor who ended up specialising in voiceover”. He started that career path in 1950 when he began voicing Mr. Turnip in Whirligig. He can be heard in various 70s, 80s and 90s cartoons, such as Sir Prancelot, Noah and Nelly in Skylark, The Perishers, SuperTed and Jimbo and the Jet-Set. He met his wife Rosemary Miller through doing voices for Toytown in 1956 (preceding his involvement in the 1970s Larry the Lamb).

Rosemary also did quite a few voiceover jobs: Pinocchio in a 1978 BBC television serial, Alice Worm in the English dub of 1988 animated film Stowaways on the Ark (with Peter as her in-universe husband) and Fu Long in the Manga UK dub of Japanese anime Crying Freeman. Not sure what happened to her (Peter died in 2006).

David Graham was also in Stowaways.

[George 1978]

One of those people whose voice(s) were more familiar than the person themselves.

Sounds as if this should be in Gone, But Not Forgotten